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From 1950 to 1973, Dr. Rodney Young and a team from the University of Pennsylvania carried out extensive archaeological excavations at the site of Gordion in central Turkey. Their work revealed the modest houses of a sprawling and lively agricultural settlement that grew at the …

This dissertation investigates the history of Western European tonality through the prism of the Phrygian cadence and the Phrygian mode. It takes as its starting point the question of how a note that was expressly a final according to medieval and Renaissance modal theory was ab…